As that sage philosopher Rahm Emmanuel stated during the financial crisis of 2008, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that [is] it's an opportunity to do things that you think you could not before." When the tribe stops irrigating the golf course, I'll stop watering the lawn.
I love Cliff. Been reading his blog for years. I worked part-time on a climate change project for about 15 years: education and outreach. In the early years, that federally-funded group's narrative was that climate has always changed. But around 2008, something shifted. I wasn't part of leadership, but I remember asking, after the IPCC hockey-stick debacle, "Aren't we going to shift away from this focus?" The reply was essentially, "Oh, no."
Here locally, during dry seasons the narrative builds: "but most of our glaciers are now gone." The reasonable, common-sense reply is that they've been receding since the Little Ice Age ended in the 1850s, well before industrial CO2 had any measurable atmospheric effect, and long before humans could be blamed. If you dig into the lake-pollen research, the Olympics had a California-type climate: pine and sagebrush, about 8,000 years ago. The climate has never been static.
Cliff makes the case regularly that anthropogenic warming is real but small. I'd add a few things to that picture. Urban heat island effects inflate some of the land-based surface warming record. Elevated CO2 measurably increases plant growth rates, satellite data shows real global greening tied to this. And the oceans, which store the overwhelming majority of the planet's heat and hold roughly sixty times more carbon than the atmosphere, are the dominant engine of the large natural swings we see year to year (El Niño and La Niña alone move the global carbon and temperature numbers more than most policy debates acknowledge).
Here's a data point worth sitting with: during COVID lockdowns, global CO2 emissions dropped by 5-7% for the better part of a year. The Keeling curve barely moved. Researchers who ran the numbers on this found that to actually flatten the curve, you'd need something close to a full stop in emissions, not a partial one, because the atmosphere is a slow-draining bathtub, not a light switch. That should be sobering to policy makers who thinks marginal policy interventions, the kind that we see here in WA at the gas pump, your stove, your thermostat, are going to visibly move global CO2 in any of our lifetimes. If a 7% global cut does almost nothing, the individual sacrifices being asked of ordinary people do less than nothing, and the people asking for them know it.
Which brings me to the real question: why the narrative, then? This is why I write so often about progressive technocracy. This is what COVID was really about: installing scientific and technological management over humanity, using crisis and expert authority to justify control that wouldn't otherwise be tolerated. Climate change is the perfect vehicle for that, global in scope, slow-moving enough to never be falsified in a news cycle, and useful for justifying laws that regulate industry, consumption, and, most importantly, freedom, whether or not the specific policy on offer would move the needle at all.
Here in Washington, that narrative is still strong, which is why we're constantly told we're in drought. But thankfully, that narrative is breaking down for anyone willing to look at the actual data and ask hard questions about who benefits from the story staying exactly as it is.
When I lived in Alaska, I was shown evidence of palm trees and other tropical plants that existed in that state eons ago. The earth’s Climate is always changing.
We have limestones in the Olympics: warm period. But those events were long ago.
The main thing is that climate advocacy has become an apocalyptic religion. As noted by covid lockdowns, there’s literally nothing we could do to slow carbon input, except shut it down almost completely. And really, we do not know the actual impact. In WA, we pay ~1.50+ a gallon because of that religion. And how does that tax help the climate?
So, people running for tribal positions use colonizer language on their signs? LOL. Thank you for clarifying the differences in the sign regulations and that Randall’s sign is in compliance. Your retraction is what makes you stand out.
Has Toxic Salsa retracted his own ‘reporting’ about Jake Seegers so his readers know the facts that there is no mansion on Jake’s land, and that Jake isn’t the one who bought the property in Sekiu and that it’s not his land? Hey, Victor, if you’re reading this, feel free to pass the facts back to Toxic Salsa. LOL.
No retraction from Salsa Picante that I know of, but I've been unsubscribed (S.P. must not want me to see what they are writing about me.) I get all my S.P. news from you!
By a guy who calls himself “Lord”. Now clearly both descriptions can not be true. What is troubling to me is I am not or will never be a prostitute, don’t have the DNA for bovine family but my weight may vary.
But “Lords” reality is not to question a comment, rather go directly to name calling.
Gee, some people loved sixth grade so much, they are hanging on to the memories in real time. I only know of one true Lord. Just another example of how you can screw your kid up with their birth name. Or maybe, it was a self proclaimed name when his birth name failed to make him popular. Was it Clarence, Wilbur, Rory, or maybe it was Lard, but nurse misspelled it.
Yours truly
Susan
Aka: prostitute, cow, fat
Thanks for thinking of me and your superior use of creative names.🤮
As dedicated scientists in several fields, we here laugh at the poor fools in the "climate alarmist cult" because REAL scientists and folks with common sense know that the earth's climate constantly changes and there are always periods of weather within the same range that has existed for MANY thousands of years~! Folks are free to have their own opinions, but one look at the usual suspects in the local climate alarmist cult clown show should be more than enough evidence that the climate cult is nothing but a communist political attack upon our community, America, and the world. If that is not enough for folks, then they should ask themselves just exactly how much of our freedom, how many of our rights, and how much of OUR money do they want us to surrender to the criminals in government, so that the government can supposedly "fix the climate"~! HA! That does not even make any sense at all~! If there really was a climate emergency, and anything that the government even could do to "fix the climate", these criminals in government would just do it without asking us a damn thing and manufacture the money to do it without asking us anything at all, as they ALWAYS do behind our backs whenever they want too anyway~! If history is honestly recorded, which would be a first, future people will look back upon this time in history and be absolutely amazed at just how stupid and foolish the climate alarmist cult was and those who were tricked into believing all of this obviously fake science garbage~! The past couple of Winters (2023 & 2024) the local mountain range was absolutely LOADED with snowpack, and we were lied to by the criminals in government and their climate alarmist cult! Last Winter (2025) there was far less of a snowpack, but STILL well within the "normal" range, however a short trip up to Hurricane Ridge would easily reveal that there is still a LOT of snow in them thar hills! But the "useful idiots" here who only look at the mountains with a knee-jerk emotional hysteria, and who never travel beyond their couch, are freaking out because they know better??? HA! Give me a break~! Do the research beyond what the fake news media and usual criminals tell us, and the world becomes clearer and more beautiful~! Remember, the same criminals in government and "science" who tried to kill us with their very Intentional COVID mass murder democide, may not be telling the truth about ANYTHING~!
Yes, the sad fact is that our government has been lying to us all of our lives, however I believe that President Trump and the white hats have been very honest, considering the fact that they really have to be careful not to expose too much just yet because of ongoing operations. There will be a point when "we" should get filled in to some degree, but I don't know when that will be. We have good folks in our government, and they are fighting against the evil people in our government who don't want "us" to know what has been and is going on because they are fighting for their very lives now... Keep the faith my friend~!
Irony. Last summer when residents were told to conserve water, new developments were watering lawns 24/7. But we're told its for the environment. Yet when a cannabis dispensary is spewing stench morning noon and night, near public trails, elementary school affecting residents breathing were told that environmental air quality issue is perfectly fine....but don't dare lite a camp fire at your home. Cheers.
Yes, we were TOTALLY lied to last year when we were told there was a drought even before the HUGE snowpack started to melt. I specifically remember the liars claiming that we were going to have a serious drought last year because of their fake science "studies" that were obviously rigged, assuming that they did any studies at all. It is ALL very clearly a massive political attack, to rob us of our freedom, rights, and money... No such drought happened last year and as you pointed out it was business as usual for ALL of the water users... We regularly monitor the local river, and we just got back from Hurricane Ridge where it is obvious that there is still a significant amount of snowpack across the coastal mountain range that can't be seen from the local communities very well... I am more than happy to conserve water and all of our natural resources, but I refuse to be terrorized by these retarded criminals who get off on screwing Americans over~! Have a mellow evening~!
That’s great Michael. For years I’ve asked, “ How does throwing more money at climate change have any impact whatsoever?” Well a few new career choices. But we were already far past the last ice age and with or without us, warming was coming, just like it has for 4.5 billion years. Then the clean energy. Oh we can make our industries pollution and dust free, but that doesn’t mitigate CHINA!
Back in the 70's these criminals of humanity were screaming bloody murder about "global cooling", and the globe actually warmed! Then these criminals screamed about "global warming" years later, and the globe actually cooled! These communists NEVER get anything right! Then these criminals just decided to scream about their fake "climate change" as a catch all so they could claim that they were right regardless of what the climate did (because the climate ALWAYS changes and they know it ;-) If you tried to write this in a script, it would only work as a sick evil comedy! HA! A few years ago, a formal hearing was held where one of these evil "climate cult alarmist" criminal terrorists (fake scientists) was being questioned, and he was FINALLY forced to admit that IF ALL of the demands of the criminal climate terrorists were met, the globe "COULD" possibly be cooled 1 degree! HA! 1 degree? For QUADRILLIONS of dollars stolen from people all over the world, that would have "shockingly" ended up in these same criminals of humanities pockets~! Ha Ha Ha! What a scam! No, the Chinese and a LOT of other countries are not falling for this scam, but they sure are laughing at the stupid Americans and others who are falling for it! Ain't Brainwashing fun! :( The Western civilization gets weaker & weaker as "we" commit economic suicide, and China and the other nations get stronger & stronger~! Thank God for President Trump and the white hats who are fighting against this insanity~!
In the case of the repeated City of Port Angeles summer water shortages I would like to better understand why conserving water now will matter, except to practice conservation measures in case one is clueless about ways to use less water when river flows cease feeding the system.
The City has water storage tanks that have capacity for a day or two of normal use by residents. That water comes from either the city's Ranney well 60 feet under the Elwha River or directly from the river via the intake constructed when dams were removed.
The Ranney well water is considered subject to surface influence. If the river is not flowing it is not recharging that well. When river flow get too low, the new intake has no water to take in.
The flows are not at that stage now. The storage tanks can still be pumped full with the flow that remains. Conserving now just means less pumping for the city while there's accessible water. If flows get too low, no amount of conservation will sustain the City's residents longer than the storage tanks last - a couple days maybe.
So, is conserving now just for practice for a real shortage? Is the river flow already so low that the Ranney well and the intake only see water at night during natural cycles when uoriver vegetation is not sucking water?
If our city depends on an undammed river fed by disappearing glaciers, what is the plan to insure a future water supply?
Great question, I think the plan is to keep the public anxious so we don’t notice (as if) that some extreme water consumption is going on (tribe) but that never (tribe) seems to be an issue!
Good article, Jeff, because this water issue concerns everyone. These money hungry activists have cried wolf so many times, that you have to verify everything you read and hear. This is the same pattern CA used to seize more control over residents. And look what happens. Deliberately set fires with no water to save people, homes, businesses, and trees. Stop the fear mongering, debate the real issues, and solve the problems, and above all, work together.
It’s like Obama getting a Nobel prize. I don’t think he had even been in office 6 months. I guess the prize was for participation in politics.
Not really a personal world order changing endeavor. Maybe to make voters feel good about their choice and other voters feel like they underestimated the importance of that choice!
Wa state was not to concerned about drought conditions when it allowed 2 dams to be removed on the elwah river lake mills dam-lake aldwell dam.Wa state did not even factor in storage tanks for drought conditions in the mass million $$$ removal project.During rainy seasons mass water can be collected for drought conditions but state is more concerned about spending billions on it's sanctuary state dependents because they require 'free everything'.
The loudest warnings often come from people or groups associated with those whose grant funding is associated with the concept of low river flow and global warning. And by the way, golf courses use a lot more water than data centers.
Not true. Golf course only use water for about 5 months a year. Data Centers are year round. Sorry to let you know that but the data centers year round use far more water and especially electricity that affects us far more. In Arizona or a year round climate you probably have a point but it is not here.
Recently read about the high incidence of cancers to people living on or near to golf courses. It’s due to the heavy use of chemicals from weed eating products to grass greening chemicals. The numbers far outweigh the general population when considering that as the only variable.Not only airborne but ground water contamination. Really don’t think our forever home exists. Plus I don’t get golf. At any level for any reason. Talk about the entitled few. Once it was the key place for business men , to get your customers to sign up or order.
I have played golf all my life and have lifelong friends from my college golf team at Arizona State. Unless you have played it and liked it u wouldn’t understand. Yes it is not for everyone as is soccer and other sports.Golfers are some of the best athletes that I know. As far as cancer I have not gotten it yet but I believe you could be right.
They don’t water in the snow and rain. The golf courses are muddy in the winter and water is not needed. I said or meant that they don’t water for about 5 months of the year.That is a fact that they don’t water all year. I called my buddy the golf pro in Seattle and he confirmed my statement. Municipal or private doesn’t make a difference.
When a drought is declared in Washington, it unlocks money for local governments, tribes, farmers, and businesses. Benefits include emergency drought-response grants, low-interest economic loans, emergency food and cash assistance, and access to federal agricultural aid.
The Washington Department of Ecology releases emergency grant funding to help local public entities, tribes, and irrigation districts.
When the state declares a drought emergency, it typically enables the Small Business Administration to offer low-interest Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL).
The declaration paves the way for farmers and ranchers to access emergency loan assistance and disaster relief through the USDA Farm Service Agency.
The Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) manages a program for state residents living in a declared drought disaster county who have suffered a specific loss of property or income. It assists with emergency housing, utility costs, and food needs.
So taking down the damn dams was the first line of defense for drought? How’s that working out? Curious about numbers regarding salmon spawning on previously inaccessible river areas. Talk about throwing our tax dollars in the fire. The more we invest in salmon recovery the lower the return has been. I haven’t checked it for 3-4 years, but if we could put nets that block all returning salmon, our freezers would be full also.
When one lives the better part of a century in a given geographic area, one notes cyclic weather patterns. For the newcomers, of the mid to late 1980s, had they lived on the Olympic Peninsula during the 1950s or prior, it is very likely they wouldn't be here. Al Gore and his "those that can, do; those who can't, teach" climate warriors suck gullible, fearful minds into a life of leisure for himself and "experts" that couldn't buy a job, prior. Such people have nothing of value to contribute to human existence or sustenance; doom and gloom rhetoric, while burning through other people's money and resources. In California, they have been usurping water and energy resources from outside their borders for generations, and have been in a drought since the state was created. As I look out my living room windows, the sights and sounds of old school irrigation sprinklers, chugging away in the hayfield, which have been my entire life; also, one of the best sleep aids, ever. People who have no real purpose, are those who attempt to profess their expertise to those who, like themselves, have no life experience nor common sense, always citing someone else's data and "findings." In the meantime, back on the farm, life goes on pleasantly forward without their noise and cries for attention. "Sign, sign, everywhere a sign, blockin' out the scenery..." My glass is sized to my consumption, never full, because I don't want to waste if spilled. More people need to get aboard a John Deere, Massey Ferguson, or Ford 7700 for 16+ hours a day; one sleeps very well, and our Republic gets fed food, instead of nonsense.
nice and truthful. I remember those days worked 10 to 12 hour days moving pipe and they irrigated around the clock uh those were the days. You know we appreciated and lived the good life. I liked Gods plan! I still have model B 2 lunger. Don't forget the INH and the co-op tractors.
So Cutler got six years or less for "attempted murder, first-degree arson, burglary, and possession of stolen firearms.". It's no wonder they don't think twice before committing the crime. Did she even do any time? I'm not finding anything on it.
I find this very interesting Jeff. I live next to PUD in Sequim. The development has 16 lots with houses on them and when I moved here 5 years ago we receive FREE irrigation water
from the river. It has been unlimited so far and use it to water our lawns freely. I am not part of the Tribes land or no special rights property. I hope that this doesn’t affect my situation now that I have brought this to your attention but I believe they are trying to cause a panic that lets them get more power over our land in this county. What they tell you doesn’t make sense to me. My grass is as green as the golf course.
Well, Jed, at least you have a spine and are honest enough to bring this forth. Lawns and golf courses are not the reason that the various irrigatio systems were hand-dug, with miles of flumes created in the same fashion. I pay for the irrigation rights to my property every year for the past 30 years and at this point, have never drawn one drop. My "lawn" is formerly a hayfield that adjoins the property, with no fences between us.
I know you have more invested than me in your property and hard work. You are a true patriot and wish we could change the direction of our county. Hopefully we are both on the right path to do so.
As that sage philosopher Rahm Emmanuel stated during the financial crisis of 2008, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that [is] it's an opportunity to do things that you think you could not before." When the tribe stops irrigating the golf course, I'll stop watering the lawn.
Don’t forget about the Casino and the
Tribal center they water all the time too!
Good morning Jeff and Doggers,
Thank you for the article today. This state and county has got to get a grip and please try to stop sensationalizing what is normal...
Of the years I've lived here I've seen one or two years of above normal snow packs in the hills. All others have been very similar to this years.
If there truly is an issue, I'd love to see the land stewards lead the way of proper conservation... Until then I'll go water the garden.
Thanks for the apology to Emily...now she can apologize for her far leaning behavior!
Have a great day all!
I love Cliff. Been reading his blog for years. I worked part-time on a climate change project for about 15 years: education and outreach. In the early years, that federally-funded group's narrative was that climate has always changed. But around 2008, something shifted. I wasn't part of leadership, but I remember asking, after the IPCC hockey-stick debacle, "Aren't we going to shift away from this focus?" The reply was essentially, "Oh, no."
Here locally, during dry seasons the narrative builds: "but most of our glaciers are now gone." The reasonable, common-sense reply is that they've been receding since the Little Ice Age ended in the 1850s, well before industrial CO2 had any measurable atmospheric effect, and long before humans could be blamed. If you dig into the lake-pollen research, the Olympics had a California-type climate: pine and sagebrush, about 8,000 years ago. The climate has never been static.
Cliff makes the case regularly that anthropogenic warming is real but small. I'd add a few things to that picture. Urban heat island effects inflate some of the land-based surface warming record. Elevated CO2 measurably increases plant growth rates, satellite data shows real global greening tied to this. And the oceans, which store the overwhelming majority of the planet's heat and hold roughly sixty times more carbon than the atmosphere, are the dominant engine of the large natural swings we see year to year (El Niño and La Niña alone move the global carbon and temperature numbers more than most policy debates acknowledge).
Here's a data point worth sitting with: during COVID lockdowns, global CO2 emissions dropped by 5-7% for the better part of a year. The Keeling curve barely moved. Researchers who ran the numbers on this found that to actually flatten the curve, you'd need something close to a full stop in emissions, not a partial one, because the atmosphere is a slow-draining bathtub, not a light switch. That should be sobering to policy makers who thinks marginal policy interventions, the kind that we see here in WA at the gas pump, your stove, your thermostat, are going to visibly move global CO2 in any of our lifetimes. If a 7% global cut does almost nothing, the individual sacrifices being asked of ordinary people do less than nothing, and the people asking for them know it.
Which brings me to the real question: why the narrative, then? This is why I write so often about progressive technocracy. This is what COVID was really about: installing scientific and technological management over humanity, using crisis and expert authority to justify control that wouldn't otherwise be tolerated. Climate change is the perfect vehicle for that, global in scope, slow-moving enough to never be falsified in a news cycle, and useful for justifying laws that regulate industry, consumption, and, most importantly, freedom, whether or not the specific policy on offer would move the needle at all.
Here in Washington, that narrative is still strong, which is why we're constantly told we're in drought. But thankfully, that narrative is breaking down for anyone willing to look at the actual data and ask hard questions about who benefits from the story staying exactly as it is.
Melted glaciers formed the Great Lakes. Not a bad trade.
When I lived in Alaska, I was shown evidence of palm trees and other tropical plants that existed in that state eons ago. The earth’s Climate is always changing.
We have limestones in the Olympics: warm period. But those events were long ago.
The main thing is that climate advocacy has become an apocalyptic religion. As noted by covid lockdowns, there’s literally nothing we could do to slow carbon input, except shut it down almost completely. And really, we do not know the actual impact. In WA, we pay ~1.50+ a gallon because of that religion. And how does that tax help the climate?
So, people running for tribal positions use colonizer language on their signs? LOL. Thank you for clarifying the differences in the sign regulations and that Randall’s sign is in compliance. Your retraction is what makes you stand out.
Has Toxic Salsa retracted his own ‘reporting’ about Jake Seegers so his readers know the facts that there is no mansion on Jake’s land, and that Jake isn’t the one who bought the property in Sekiu and that it’s not his land? Hey, Victor, if you’re reading this, feel free to pass the facts back to Toxic Salsa. LOL.
No retraction from Salsa Picante that I know of, but I've been unsubscribed (S.P. must not want me to see what they are writing about me.) I get all my S.P. news from you!
Oh by the way;
I have been called a prostitute, fat cow.
By a guy who calls himself “Lord”. Now clearly both descriptions can not be true. What is troubling to me is I am not or will never be a prostitute, don’t have the DNA for bovine family but my weight may vary.
But “Lords” reality is not to question a comment, rather go directly to name calling.
Gee, some people loved sixth grade so much, they are hanging on to the memories in real time. I only know of one true Lord. Just another example of how you can screw your kid up with their birth name. Or maybe, it was a self proclaimed name when his birth name failed to make him popular. Was it Clarence, Wilbur, Rory, or maybe it was Lard, but nurse misspelled it.
Yours truly
Susan
Aka: prostitute, cow, fat
Thanks for thinking of me and your superior use of creative names.🤮
As dedicated scientists in several fields, we here laugh at the poor fools in the "climate alarmist cult" because REAL scientists and folks with common sense know that the earth's climate constantly changes and there are always periods of weather within the same range that has existed for MANY thousands of years~! Folks are free to have their own opinions, but one look at the usual suspects in the local climate alarmist cult clown show should be more than enough evidence that the climate cult is nothing but a communist political attack upon our community, America, and the world. If that is not enough for folks, then they should ask themselves just exactly how much of our freedom, how many of our rights, and how much of OUR money do they want us to surrender to the criminals in government, so that the government can supposedly "fix the climate"~! HA! That does not even make any sense at all~! If there really was a climate emergency, and anything that the government even could do to "fix the climate", these criminals in government would just do it without asking us a damn thing and manufacture the money to do it without asking us anything at all, as they ALWAYS do behind our backs whenever they want too anyway~! If history is honestly recorded, which would be a first, future people will look back upon this time in history and be absolutely amazed at just how stupid and foolish the climate alarmist cult was and those who were tricked into believing all of this obviously fake science garbage~! The past couple of Winters (2023 & 2024) the local mountain range was absolutely LOADED with snowpack, and we were lied to by the criminals in government and their climate alarmist cult! Last Winter (2025) there was far less of a snowpack, but STILL well within the "normal" range, however a short trip up to Hurricane Ridge would easily reveal that there is still a LOT of snow in them thar hills! But the "useful idiots" here who only look at the mountains with a knee-jerk emotional hysteria, and who never travel beyond their couch, are freaking out because they know better??? HA! Give me a break~! Do the research beyond what the fake news media and usual criminals tell us, and the world becomes clearer and more beautiful~! Remember, the same criminals in government and "science" who tried to kill us with their very Intentional COVID mass murder democide, may not be telling the truth about ANYTHING~!
Sincerely, Mike
I very much agree, MH! Gov't is not telling the truth about anything!
Good evening, Patriot Denise Lapio~!
Yes, the sad fact is that our government has been lying to us all of our lives, however I believe that President Trump and the white hats have been very honest, considering the fact that they really have to be careful not to expose too much just yet because of ongoing operations. There will be a point when "we" should get filled in to some degree, but I don't know when that will be. We have good folks in our government, and they are fighting against the evil people in our government who don't want "us" to know what has been and is going on because they are fighting for their very lives now... Keep the faith my friend~!
Sincerely, Mike
Irony. Last summer when residents were told to conserve water, new developments were watering lawns 24/7. But we're told its for the environment. Yet when a cannabis dispensary is spewing stench morning noon and night, near public trails, elementary school affecting residents breathing were told that environmental air quality issue is perfectly fine....but don't dare lite a camp fire at your home. Cheers.
Good comment, Patriot MaGa~!
Yes, we were TOTALLY lied to last year when we were told there was a drought even before the HUGE snowpack started to melt. I specifically remember the liars claiming that we were going to have a serious drought last year because of their fake science "studies" that were obviously rigged, assuming that they did any studies at all. It is ALL very clearly a massive political attack, to rob us of our freedom, rights, and money... No such drought happened last year and as you pointed out it was business as usual for ALL of the water users... We regularly monitor the local river, and we just got back from Hurricane Ridge where it is obvious that there is still a significant amount of snowpack across the coastal mountain range that can't be seen from the local communities very well... I am more than happy to conserve water and all of our natural resources, but I refuse to be terrorized by these retarded criminals who get off on screwing Americans over~! Have a mellow evening~!
Sincerely, Mike
That’s great Michael. For years I’ve asked, “ How does throwing more money at climate change have any impact whatsoever?” Well a few new career choices. But we were already far past the last ice age and with or without us, warming was coming, just like it has for 4.5 billion years. Then the clean energy. Oh we can make our industries pollution and dust free, but that doesn’t mitigate CHINA!
Right you are, Patriot Susan C Bonallo~!
Back in the 70's these criminals of humanity were screaming bloody murder about "global cooling", and the globe actually warmed! Then these criminals screamed about "global warming" years later, and the globe actually cooled! These communists NEVER get anything right! Then these criminals just decided to scream about their fake "climate change" as a catch all so they could claim that they were right regardless of what the climate did (because the climate ALWAYS changes and they know it ;-) If you tried to write this in a script, it would only work as a sick evil comedy! HA! A few years ago, a formal hearing was held where one of these evil "climate cult alarmist" criminal terrorists (fake scientists) was being questioned, and he was FINALLY forced to admit that IF ALL of the demands of the criminal climate terrorists were met, the globe "COULD" possibly be cooled 1 degree! HA! 1 degree? For QUADRILLIONS of dollars stolen from people all over the world, that would have "shockingly" ended up in these same criminals of humanities pockets~! Ha Ha Ha! What a scam! No, the Chinese and a LOT of other countries are not falling for this scam, but they sure are laughing at the stupid Americans and others who are falling for it! Ain't Brainwashing fun! :( The Western civilization gets weaker & weaker as "we" commit economic suicide, and China and the other nations get stronger & stronger~! Thank God for President Trump and the white hats who are fighting against this insanity~!
Have a mellow evening~!
Sincerely, Mike
Hey Jeff, we need to talk about these findings at the next Grange meeting!
Jeff- Good morning 😃
I tried to link this to your YouTube channel last night.
It’s gone.
Here it is again.
The previous Sequim Public works director stated “we have enough water”.
He was replaced with “Chris Goins” from Alaska.
He (Chris) has to move his family here…
out of 40-50 applications.. they chose him.
Read his bio.
💥
https://www.myclallamcounty.com/2026/03/25/public-works-director-sequim-has-enough-ground-water-to-meet-future-demand/
"...they chose him."
i concur 👍🏼
Dr. Standard Park on Silberhorn Road. The JKT recently had silberhorn property entered into Tribal Trust. Hmm.
oh no.
denise-text me that info or place link on here would ya?
I have friends that live in the area.
In the case of the repeated City of Port Angeles summer water shortages I would like to better understand why conserving water now will matter, except to practice conservation measures in case one is clueless about ways to use less water when river flows cease feeding the system.
The City has water storage tanks that have capacity for a day or two of normal use by residents. That water comes from either the city's Ranney well 60 feet under the Elwha River or directly from the river via the intake constructed when dams were removed.
The Ranney well water is considered subject to surface influence. If the river is not flowing it is not recharging that well. When river flow get too low, the new intake has no water to take in.
The flows are not at that stage now. The storage tanks can still be pumped full with the flow that remains. Conserving now just means less pumping for the city while there's accessible water. If flows get too low, no amount of conservation will sustain the City's residents longer than the storage tanks last - a couple days maybe.
So, is conserving now just for practice for a real shortage? Is the river flow already so low that the Ranney well and the intake only see water at night during natural cycles when uoriver vegetation is not sucking water?
If our city depends on an undammed river fed by disappearing glaciers, what is the plan to insure a future water supply?
Great question, I think the plan is to keep the public anxious so we don’t notice (as if) that some extreme water consumption is going on (tribe) but that never (tribe) seems to be an issue!
Good article, Jeff, because this water issue concerns everyone. These money hungry activists have cried wolf so many times, that you have to verify everything you read and hear. This is the same pattern CA used to seize more control over residents. And look what happens. Deliberately set fires with no water to save people, homes, businesses, and trees. Stop the fear mongering, debate the real issues, and solve the problems, and above all, work together.
Crisis declarations, creates grants.
No crisis... no funding.
No funding, no lucrative 'extra', monies for the officiating entities, to 'earn in raises', or spend. IMO 🤷♀️
I'll add, Has ANYONE seen the RAISE that Gov Ferguson received?😳
WTF has he done for WA state to allocate a substantial raise? 🤬🤔
Except land us in court over unpopular and unconstitutional laws.
It’s like Obama getting a Nobel prize. I don’t think he had even been in office 6 months. I guess the prize was for participation in politics.
Not really a personal world order changing endeavor. Maybe to make voters feel good about their choice and other voters feel like they underestimated the importance of that choice!
Politics proves that oily slime rises to the top.
Wa state was not to concerned about drought conditions when it allowed 2 dams to be removed on the elwah river lake mills dam-lake aldwell dam.Wa state did not even factor in storage tanks for drought conditions in the mass million $$$ removal project.During rainy seasons mass water can be collected for drought conditions but state is more concerned about spending billions on it's sanctuary state dependents because they require 'free everything'.
The loudest warnings often come from people or groups associated with those whose grant funding is associated with the concept of low river flow and global warning. And by the way, golf courses use a lot more water than data centers.
Not true. Golf course only use water for about 5 months a year. Data Centers are year round. Sorry to let you know that but the data centers year round use far more water and especially electricity that affects us far more. In Arizona or a year round climate you probably have a point but it is not here.
Recently read about the high incidence of cancers to people living on or near to golf courses. It’s due to the heavy use of chemicals from weed eating products to grass greening chemicals. The numbers far outweigh the general population when considering that as the only variable.Not only airborne but ground water contamination. Really don’t think our forever home exists. Plus I don’t get golf. At any level for any reason. Talk about the entitled few. Once it was the key place for business men , to get your customers to sign up or order.
I have played golf all my life and have lifelong friends from my college golf team at Arizona State. Unless you have played it and liked it u wouldn’t understand. Yes it is not for everyone as is soccer and other sports.Golfers are some of the best athletes that I know. As far as cancer I have not gotten it yet but I believe you could be right.
https://www.aol.com/articles/panic-over-data-centers-wildly-231644000.html
Yes, they really don't consume the voracious amounts people seem to believe.
I don’t think your 5 months water usage is true. Unless it’s snowing municipal golf courses keep the water on, just like the private ones.
They don’t water in the snow and rain. The golf courses are muddy in the winter and water is not needed. I said or meant that they don’t water for about 5 months of the year.That is a fact that they don’t water all year. I called my buddy the golf pro in Seattle and he confirmed my statement. Municipal or private doesn’t make a difference.
Drought declaration = raining money.
When a drought is declared in Washington, it unlocks money for local governments, tribes, farmers, and businesses. Benefits include emergency drought-response grants, low-interest economic loans, emergency food and cash assistance, and access to federal agricultural aid.
The Washington Department of Ecology releases emergency grant funding to help local public entities, tribes, and irrigation districts.
When the state declares a drought emergency, it typically enables the Small Business Administration to offer low-interest Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL).
The declaration paves the way for farmers and ranchers to access emergency loan assistance and disaster relief through the USDA Farm Service Agency.
The Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) manages a program for state residents living in a declared drought disaster county who have suffered a specific loss of property or income. It assists with emergency housing, utility costs, and food needs.
So taking down the damn dams was the first line of defense for drought? How’s that working out? Curious about numbers regarding salmon spawning on previously inaccessible river areas. Talk about throwing our tax dollars in the fire. The more we invest in salmon recovery the lower the return has been. I haven’t checked it for 3-4 years, but if we could put nets that block all returning salmon, our freezers would be full also.
When one lives the better part of a century in a given geographic area, one notes cyclic weather patterns. For the newcomers, of the mid to late 1980s, had they lived on the Olympic Peninsula during the 1950s or prior, it is very likely they wouldn't be here. Al Gore and his "those that can, do; those who can't, teach" climate warriors suck gullible, fearful minds into a life of leisure for himself and "experts" that couldn't buy a job, prior. Such people have nothing of value to contribute to human existence or sustenance; doom and gloom rhetoric, while burning through other people's money and resources. In California, they have been usurping water and energy resources from outside their borders for generations, and have been in a drought since the state was created. As I look out my living room windows, the sights and sounds of old school irrigation sprinklers, chugging away in the hayfield, which have been my entire life; also, one of the best sleep aids, ever. People who have no real purpose, are those who attempt to profess their expertise to those who, like themselves, have no life experience nor common sense, always citing someone else's data and "findings." In the meantime, back on the farm, life goes on pleasantly forward without their noise and cries for attention. "Sign, sign, everywhere a sign, blockin' out the scenery..." My glass is sized to my consumption, never full, because I don't want to waste if spilled. More people need to get aboard a John Deere, Massey Ferguson, or Ford 7700 for 16+ hours a day; one sleeps very well, and our Republic gets fed food, instead of nonsense.
nice and truthful. I remember those days worked 10 to 12 hour days moving pipe and they irrigated around the clock uh those were the days. You know we appreciated and lived the good life. I liked Gods plan! I still have model B 2 lunger. Don't forget the INH and the co-op tractors.
So Cutler got six years or less for "attempted murder, first-degree arson, burglary, and possession of stolen firearms.". It's no wonder they don't think twice before committing the crime. Did she even do any time? I'm not finding anything on it.
Good question, I wish I knew.
I find this very interesting Jeff. I live next to PUD in Sequim. The development has 16 lots with houses on them and when I moved here 5 years ago we receive FREE irrigation water
from the river. It has been unlimited so far and use it to water our lawns freely. I am not part of the Tribes land or no special rights property. I hope that this doesn’t affect my situation now that I have brought this to your attention but I believe they are trying to cause a panic that lets them get more power over our land in this county. What they tell you doesn’t make sense to me. My grass is as green as the golf course.
Well, Jed, at least you have a spine and are honest enough to bring this forth. Lawns and golf courses are not the reason that the various irrigatio systems were hand-dug, with miles of flumes created in the same fashion. I pay for the irrigation rights to my property every year for the past 30 years and at this point, have never drawn one drop. My "lawn" is formerly a hayfield that adjoins the property, with no fences between us.
I know you have more invested than me in your property and hard work. You are a true patriot and wish we could change the direction of our county. Hopefully we are both on the right path to do so.